April 21, 2025

Why Republicans love torture

 Daily Kos -  President Donald Trump has often openly expressed his love of abuse. In one disturbing instance in 2017, he laughed as he told a crowd of police officers in New York that they should abuse people as they arrest them.  Discussing the practice of protecting suspects’ heads as they are loaded into police cars, he said, “You can take the hand off.” 

Trump used much of his first term to endorse police brutality, particularly of Black people. He lashed out at Black Lives Matters protests and encouraged police officers to attack protesters. Earlier examples

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